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Following mass lay-offs and program slashes, University of Southern Maine faculty and students demand 'human right to education'

So up to now, I have remained speechless in the face of what appears to me to be utter madness.

We want to be friends with Ukraine and we want Ukraine to be a strong, sovereign and self-sufficient country. Ukraine is one of our biggest partners after all. We have many joint projects and I believe in their success no matter what the current difficulties. Most importantly, we want peace and harmony to reign in Ukraine, and we are ready to work together with other countries to do everything possible to facilitate and support this.

The deaths of Tony Benn and Bob Crow in the same week have led many to ask what's left of the left. Plenty, actually – and in any case, it's not about individuals, it's about collective action.

Trans Pacific Partnership, Progressive Caucus Budget, NSA, Fukushima, Elizabeth Warren

A reform-union activist slate has won the election for Officers in the Los Angeles Teachers Union. This is the second largest teachers local union in the country. They have a long road to walk due to a discouraged membership.

Images of the infant Universe reveal evidence for rapid inflation after the Big Bang.